Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.